<h3>CIRT</h3>
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<p>CIRT Mission and History

 
The mission of the Center for Instruction & Research Technology (CIRT) is to offer expertise, resources, and training to 
assist faculty in ways that enable them to develop greater capacities for using technology for teaching and research. 
CIRT also disseminates ideas, frameworks, and materials that apply pedagogical knowledge to the teaching and learning process.
 
The Center for Instruction and Research Technology began as a software 
testing facility within Computing Services in the early 1990s. By October, 1995, CIRT was launched as a more 
diversified faculty support facility, and in that year UNF faculty and administration decided to house CIRT under the Office of 
Faculty Enhancement and locate it within a newly proposed faculty center. As a result, in the 1999-2000 academic year CIRT moved to 
Honors Hall, Building 10. In April of 2000 CIRT hired its first full-time employee and emerged as an educational technology center 
where faculty could go to explore software, check out equipment, work on course development and much more.
 
In 2007, CIRT became an independent unit, reporting  to Academic Affairs.  Today, CIRT has eight full-time employees and houses a 
collection of technologically advanced workstations, printers, scanners, digital cameras, digital camcorders, laptops, and other 
equipment. In addition, CIRT has an extensive software library that faculty can access through the main lab computers  or by checking 
out a CIRT laptop.  In 2010, CIRT expanded its facilities and moved to a larger location in J.J. Daniel Hall, Building 1, Room 1801.

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